Carmichael Coal Mine
Community group Land Services of Coast and Country launched legal
proceedings in September against Adani’s Carmichael Coal Mine in the
Queensland Land Court on the grounds of climate change, groundwater
impacts and protection of the threatened Black-throated Finch.
The proposed Adani Carmichael underground and open-cut mine, railway
and port project includes building Australia’s largest thermal coal mine
in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland.
It will be linked by a purpose built 388km rail line to a new terminal
at Abbot Point Port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef near Bowen. It
will export to India 60 million tonnes of coal each year over its
estimated life of 60 to 90 years.
The Carmichael coal mine will open up the currently untouched Galilee
Basin coal reserve. It will impact on the threatened ecological
community at Doongmabulla Springs and the million year old groundwater
resources that are the life blood of surrounding farmers. It will also
significantly impact threatened species including one of only two
nationally important populations of the endangered Black-throated Finch
(pictured).
The hearing of the mining lease applications and objections
is listed for five weeks commencing on Monday, 30 March 2015.
For information visit EDO Queensland.
Neighbouring the Galilee Basin is Bimblebox Nature Refuge.
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